As MobileMe users should well know, downtime is not at all unheard of for the MobileMe service. In fact, one could say it’s quite a common affair.

This time, however, the outage was considerably longer and it extended to most of the service. One cannot help wonder whether it had anything to do with the forthcoming transition to iCloud.

Both .Mac and MobileMe failed to take off as Steve Jobs hoped, and with the October 4 launch coming up, Apple’s engineers must be busy testing the iCloud backend for every possible flaw that may hinder a perfect launch.

Since much of the MobileMe functionality will be transitioned over to the new service, this is the most plausible scenario.

How about you? Any problems with MobileMe today? Failed to recover a stolen iPhone because of it? Sound off in the comments.